Senate debates

Monday, 22 July 2019

Questions without Notice

Environment

2:24 pm

Photo of Mathias CormannMathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I'm somewhat intrigued by the line of questioning being pursued by Senator Di Natale, because one of his predecessors as Leader of the Australian Greens, Dr Bob Brown, of course stood in the way. He didn't want us to have hydro energy in Tasmania; he wanted coal instead of hydro.

And you could have knocked me over with a feather the other week, when he had the opportunity to come out fighting for wind energy. Apparently, now Dr Bob Brown is also against wind energy. Presumably, that is because he still thinks that we will need—

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